The Alien from France, Plus Million-Dollar Picks, Bad QBs, and the Sneaky-Scary Niners With Peter Schrager and Ben Solak

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons shares his thoughts on top NBA draft prospect Victor Wembanyama after watching two exhibition games against the G League Ignite, as well as where he ranks among the best NBA draft prospects of all time (2:07). Then, Bill is joined by Peter Schrager of NFL Network and Fox Sports to discuss some bad NFL QB play through four weeks, as well as the 49ers' impressive defense, the Rams' slump, and more (22:37). Next, Bill is joined by The Ringer’s Benjamin Solak to discuss some matchups and kick around some NFL bets for Week 5, including: 49ers-Panthers, Bengals-Ravens, Buccaneers-Falcons, Cowboys-Rams, Chargers-Browns, Eagles-Jaguars, Patriots-Lions, and more (1:04:30). Finally, Bill makes the Million-Dollar Picks for Week 5 (1:33:01). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Peter Schrager and Benjamin Solak Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	She got the ringers at local sports podcast New York New York with John just
0:03.8	Stremsky getting ready for the Yankees and Metz in the playoffs off the pike with Brian
0:07.8	Barrett.
0:08.8	Feel a little Celtics optimism.
0:09.8	Sean Brandy was on to talk about that.
0:11.5	The Fogo Jason Goff Chicago sports not a lot optimism there, but maybe it'll be coming
0:16.4	this winter with the bulls.
0:17.6	Then last but not least, the ringers, Philly special, which is every week in Eagles party.
0:22.7	Go check them all out on the ringer podcast network.
0:26.2	We're also brought to you by the ringer podcast network.
0:28.4	I popped on two ringer podcasts this week.
0:31.2	One was slow news day with Kevin Clark.
0:33.3	A lot of Patriots talk, a lot of Tom Brady talk.
0:36.1	Couldn't fit it into this podcast.
0:37.7	So went on over there to talk about those things.
0:41.1	And then another thing we couldn't fit in that I was super excited to talk about Aaron
0:45.4	Judge, Barry Bonds.
0:47.4	What's the real baseball record?
0:48.8	How do we treat the steroids?
0:49.8	I talked about all of it with Derek Thompson on playing English.
0:53.7	Great podcast.
0:54.7	Go check out playing English if you haven't.
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